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Overview

Susan L. Neuhausen is affiliated with the City Of Hope National Medical Center in the United States. Their research spans extensively across the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine.

Their work focuses primarily on genetics and molecular biology, with particular attention to oncology, cancer research, and reproductive medicine. Key topics include BRCA gene mutations in cancer, genetic associations and epidemiology, ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment, cancer genomics and diagnostics, nutrition, genetics and disease, global cancer incidence and screening, and genetic factors in colorectal cancer.

The scientist has contributed to notable recent publications, including:

  • "Cancer health disparities in racial/ethnic minorities in the United States" (2020, British Journal of Cancer)
  • "A Population-Based Study of Genes Previously Implicated in Breast Cancer" (2021, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • "An integrative multi-omics analysis to identify candidate DNA methylation biomarkers related to prostate cancer risk" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Contralateral Breast Cancer Risk Among Carriers of Germline Pathogenic Variants in ATM, BRCA1, BRCA2, CHEK2, and PALB2" (2023, Journal of Clinical Oncology)
  • "Variable number tandem repeats mediate the expression of proximal genes" (2021, Nature Communications)

Susan L. Neuhausen has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Cancer Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • British Journal of Cancer
  • UNC Libraries

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Esther M. John
  • Jeffrey N. Weitzel
  • Fergus J. Couch
  • Jan Lubiński
  • Christopher A. Haiman

Best Publications

  • A strong candidate for the breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1

    Yoshio Miki;Jeff Swensen;Donna Shattuck-Eidens;P. Andrew Futreal

  • Genetic Heterogeneity and Penetrance Analysis of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 Genes in Breast Cancer Families

    D Ford;D F Easton;M Stratton;S Narod

  • Localization of a breast cancer susceptibility gene, BRCA2, to chromosome 13q12-13

    Richard Wooster;Susan L. Neuhausen;Jonathan Mangion;Yvette Quirk

  • Prophylactic Oophorectomy in Carriers of BRCA1 or BRCA2 Mutations

    Timothy R. Rebbeck;Henry T. Lynch;Susan L. Neuhausen;Steven A. Narod

  • Association of Risk-Reducing Surgery in BRCA1 or BRCA2 Mutation Carriers With Cancer Risk and Mortality

    Susan M. Domchek;Tara M. Friebel;Christian F. Singer;D. Gareth Evans

  • Bilateral Prophylactic Mastectomy Reduces Breast Cancer Risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers: The PROSE Study Group

    Timothy R. Rebbeck;Tara Friebel;Henry T. Lynch;Susan L. Neuhausen

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Sara Lindström;Sara Lindström;Joe Dennis;Jonathan Beesley

  • Multiple common variants for celiac disease influencing immune gene expression

    Patrick C. A. Dubois;Gosia Trynka;Lude Franke;Lude Franke;Karen A. Hunt

  • The complete BRCA2 gene and mutations in chromosome 13q-linked kindreds.

    S.V. Tavtigian;J. Simard;J. Rommens;F. Couch

  • Breast-Cancer Risk in Families with Mutations in PALB2

    A. C. Antoniou;S. Casadei;T. Heikkinen;D. Barrowdale

  • RAD51B in Familial Breast Cancer

    Liisa M. Pelttari;Sofia Khan;Mikko Vuorela;Johanna I. Kiiski

  • Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Subtypes

    Nasim Mavaddat;Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Joe Dennis;Michael Lush

  • Association analyses of more than 140,000 men identify 63 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci

    Fredrick R. Schumacher;Ali Amin Al Olama;Sonja I. Berndt;Sara Benlloch

  • Oral Contraceptives and the Risk of Hereditary Ovarian Cancer

    S. A. Narod;H. Risch;R. Moslehi;A. Dorum

  • Breast Cancer Risk After Bilateral Prophylactic Oophorectomy in BRCA1 Mutation Carriers

    Timothy R. Rebbeck;Albert M. Levin;Andrea Eisen;Carrie Snyder

  • Multifactorial Analysis of Differences Between Sporadic Breast Cancers and Cancers Involving BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations

    Sunil R. Lakhani;Jocelyne Jacquemier;John P Sloane;Barry A. Gusterson

  • Pathology of Breast and Ovarian Cancers among BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers: Results from the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA).

    Nasim Mavaddat;Daniel Barrowdale;Irene L. Andrulis;Susan M. Domchek

  • A candidate prostate cancer susceptibility gene at chromosome 17p.

    Sean V. Tavtigian;Jacques Simard;David H F Teng;Vicki Abtin

  • Association Between BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations and Survival in Women with Invasive Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

    Kelly L. Bolton;Kelly L. Bolton;Georgia Chenevix-Trench;Cindy Goh;Siegal Sadetzki

  • Risk-Reducing Salpingo-Oophorectomy for the Prevention of BRCA1- and BRCA2-Associated Breast and Gynecologic Cancer: A Multicenter, Prospective Study

    Noah D. Kauff;Susan M. Domchek;Tara M. Friebel;Mark E. Robson

Frequent Co-Authors

Irene L. Andrulis
Irene L. Andrulis University of Toronto
Fergus J. Couch
Fergus J. Couch Mayo Clinic
Jan Lubinski
Jan Lubinski Pomeranian Medical University
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Melissa C. Southey
Melissa C. Southey Monash University
Douglas F. Easton
Douglas F. Easton University of Cambridge
Jeffrey N. Weitzel
Jeffrey N. Weitzel Natera (United States)
Hiltrud Brauch
Hiltrud Brauch German Cancer Research Center
Georgia Chenevix-Trench
Georgia Chenevix-Trench QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Roger L. Milne
Roger L. Milne Cancer Council Victoria

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